Fetchmail multiple local accounts

lmcilwain · 04-01-2007, 03:36 PM

Im running FC6 on a Toshiba laptop and Im having a bit of an issue:

Can anyone tell me how I can use fetchmail and procmail to be able to download mail from two separate accounts to two separate local accounts?

I already have a local account (user1) that is downloading mail from my gmail account. Now I am trying to setup another account (user2) to be able to download my work email (so I can keep both account emails separate).

When I attempt this I get the following error when trying to run fetchmail as user2:
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[user2@linux ~]$ fetchmail -c
fetchmail: can't check mail while another fetchmail to same host is running.
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I assume I am getting this error because the fetchmail daemon is already running on user1.

Can anyone offer an help?

Berhanie · 04-01-2007, 04:50 PM

This is the .fetchmailrc that I use to download mail from my isp (for two different users) and from my university. I created a "fetchmail" user whose account I use for this purpose.

Code:

set postmaster "postmaster@mydomain.com"
set no bouncemail
set syslog

defaults
# timeout 10
 smtpaddress "mydomain.com" fetchall

poll pop.isp.net protocol pop3:
  username "ispuser1" is "localuser1" 
    password "passwd1" 
  username "ispuser2" is "localuser2"
    password "passwd2"

poll major.university.edu protocol imap:
  username "uniname" is "localuser3" 
    password "passwd3" ssl

lmcilwain · 04-01-2007, 05:43 PM

What do you mean by a fetchmail user?

You just did a useradd fetchmail?

What permissions did you give it so that it can write to all the inboxes in /var/mail?

Based on what my understanding is of your rc file, the way that you have it written, specifying the "is "localuser"" is what tells it what account inbox to write the email to?

I managed to also get fetchmail started on both accounts but on the second account I got the following error in my fetchmail log:

[user2@linux ~]$ tail -f fetchmail.log
procmail: Couldn't create "/var/mail/user2"
procmail: [17952] Sun Apr 1 17:54:43 2007
procmail: Assigning "LOGNAME=procmail.log"
procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=procmail.log"
procmail: Opening "procmail.log"

Berhanie · 04-01-2007, 06:40 PM

Quote:

You just did a useradd fetchmail?

Yes.

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What permissions did you give it so that it can write to all the inboxes in /var/mail?

None. The fetched mail is resubmitted by smtp to the local MTA.

Quote:

Based on what my understanding is of your rc file, the way that you have it written, specifying the "is "localuser"" is what tells it what account inbox to write the email to?

Yes. But, it's more like what to put for the envelope recipient.

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procmail: Couldn't create "/var/mail/user2"

Maybe you're using the --mda option? I don't invoke fetchmail with any other options but the ones in .fetchmailrc.